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29

Carnival of Ohio Politics: let’s get going Lefties!

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Submissions are still being taken for this week’s edition – the 102nd! – of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.

For those of you who’ve never sent in posts, the Carnival is a great opportunity to be read and linked to along with tens of other Ohio blogs that wax political.

Just send up to three posts (their URL addresses) to OhioPolCarnival[at]Gmail[dot]com.

And while of course I love having Righties in there too, there’s some sense that the Lefties aren’t flexing their muscles equally every week.  Could be the moons, could be you’re all feeling my pain (God forbid) but I’ve actually already sent in my three links.

So go ahead – just do it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:26 pm January 29th, 2008 in Blogging, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | Comments Off 

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29

Ode on a Blogosphere

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Hattip to India Uncut for the link to this poem about the thirstiness of the paper press.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:09 pm January 29th, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Writing | Comments Off 

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29

Blogs of Importance

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Care2 Election Blog My bloggy good friend, Catherine Morgan, runs the elections blog of Care2.  Here’s a good article from last fall about Care2 in general and an excerpt:

[Care2 is] an online community for green living and social change, has grown to include 7.75 million members and 250 nonprofit partners. The company, which relies on ad sales and sponsorships to generate revenue, grew to $5.9 million last year and has been profitable for the past three years.

Care2′s site combines social action, environmental news and green tips with related discussion groups, as well as services such as e-cards, email, blogs, polls and petitions. Members register for free, and then can participate in any of the groups, actions and services.

Thanks for flagging the elections portion, Catherine – it looks very complete and user-friendly.  I just signed up. :)

Full Frontal Scrutiny

Full Frontal Scrutiny is a joint venture between Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy, two non-profit organizations whose mission includes consumer education using investigative reporting. This Web site seeks to expose front groups, which are organizations that state a particular agenda, while hiding or obscuring their identity, membership or sponsorship, or all three.

Pakistani Spectator – I learned of this site from a fellow TMV co-blogger, Swaraaj Chauhan, who wrote this post about a Pakistani woman, Dr. (Mrs) Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, who speaks out for women and her country. The full interview with Dr. Agha is here on the Pakistani Spectator.

Stop the Smears – from the National Jewish Democratic Council; includes new spreadsheet on where the Democratic primary candidates stand on Israel

Battleground Ohio (hattip to Buckeye State Blog) – some serious insiders involved, or so it appears

I’d discovered a couple of other Ohio blogs yesterday or the day before, but I lost them.  Hopefully, as the election season progresses, they’ll re-emerge.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:34 pm January 29th, 2008 in Blogging, Foreign Affairs, Jewish, Ohio, Politics | 2 Comments 

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29

Where to watch for Florida primary results

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Try this page at the state’s Departement of State, Division of Elections.

Although there’s also this [update: I'm told this is leftover from a test-site in 2004 but I haven't confirmed that]:

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Maybe it’s the drugs I’m taking for my back – but does this chart (shown above too) show that the primary is over? What am I looking at?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:19 pm January 29th, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, WH2008 | Comments Off 

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29

State of the Union in 60 seconds

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Thanks to this “tweet” on Twitter by Jason Calacanis, here’s a 60 second version of President Bush’s State of the Union from last night.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:39 pm January 29th, 2008 in Flip, Government, Politics | 4 Comments 

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29

Niche debates for primary candidates? and other TMV-only links

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Niche debates for primary candidates? – Science Debate 2008, Ed in ’08 and ArtVote2008 have serious $$ and people behind them

The State of the Union (Drinking Game) – this was just a silly post – I couldn’t drink, but I liked remember the college days of playing The Love Boat Drinking Game

Obama conference calls with Jewish leaders – the comments there get hot and heavy

Super Tuesday (2/5): California – fascinating look from inside California at the turmoil there, with polls

Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama – an early link to the op-ed, before Sunday

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:16 am January 29th, 2008 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Politics, TMV | 2 Comments 

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29

Print fails to compel readers to read; dragging down websites w/same errors

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Here’s the original quote in the e-mail teaser from OJR (Online Journalism Review) for their article, “Readers owe nothing to publishers”:

If you want people to read your publication, you then need to do whatever is necessary to make them want to read it.

Sounds right to me. More from the article, after a cute anecdote about the aggravation of having to sift through pounds of Sunday advertisements to get to the comics, which are, invariably, split up anyway:

Here’s what normal people do when they can’t find the content they paid for in their newspaper: They cancel. As they have been, in droves, over the past generation.

News publishers like to point to television, free news online, English literacy rates and slew of other reasons to explain their readership losses. But the contempt that newspapers show for their readers by burying their editorial content beneath their remaining advertising surely is not helping keep readers around.

On the Web, we’ve gotten used to thinking about the usability of our websites. But our colleagues on the print side have been committing grave usability errors in their products over the years. And when that type of thinking infects a news organization’s attitude towards its website, news organization set themselves up to repeat its offline failures in the new medium.

And more to the point of how many of us say that we know that there are good folks writing good stuff: Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:27 am January 29th, 2008 in Blogging, Business, Marketing, Media, Tech, Writing | 3 Comments 

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